Artistic Gymnastics

First A World Cup in Paris - Final Day

20. März 2011  
Paris, France  
Artistic Gymnastics

First A World Cup in Paris - Final Day

Alina Mustafina: The Queen of Rotterdam - Triple winner in Paris

The season’s first out of 2 Artistic Gymnastics World Cups with a C III format is slated in Paris – Bercy (FRA) this weekend.
Organisers welcomed some 90 gymnasts from 36 different nations, all continents represented. Paris-Bercy was the first event of the year with this format, and the selective process was specific. Apparatus finalists of the 42nd World Championships and the best four gymnasts per apparatus from the 2010 World Ranking List only were invited. Additionally, the host federation has the right to use one wild card each for the Men’s and Women’s competitions.
An exceptional palette of athletes awaits fans with seven out of a possible ten 2010 World Championship present in Bercy, Elizabeth Tweddle and Kristian Berki having withdrawn at the last minute....
After the Saturday's qualification rounds on Sunday the only four best gymnast fighted at the apparatus finals:
<< 2010 Worlds All-around winner Alina Mustafina won three of the four apparatus in Paris.
On men's side the Chilean Enrique Thomas Gonzalez Sepulveda was the most successfully gymnast, winnin on floor and on vault ...


FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup (A), Ind. App.)
18th French International
   - Paris (FRA), March 19 - 20, 2011
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* Sunday, March 20
F I N A L  D A Y - WOMEN

* V A U L T  / Sprung
1. Aliya Mustafina (RUS) - 14.933
2. Tatiana Nabieva (RUS) - 14.399
3. Diana Maria Chelaru (ROU) - 14.016
4. Jennifer Khwela (RSA) - 13.783
    >> Detailed Results

*  U N E V E N  B A R S / Stufenbarren
1. Aliya Mustafina (RUS) - 15.733
2. Qiushuang Huang (CHN) - 15.400
3. Elisabeth Seitz (CHN) - 15.000
4. Tatiana Nabieva (RUS) - 14.566
    >> Detailed Results

*  B A L A N C E  B E A M / Balken
1. Aliya Mustafina (RUS) - 14.866
2 Ana Porgras (ROU)- 13.800
3. Anna Dementyeva (RUS) - 13.733
4. Lauren Mitchell (AUS) - 12.533
    >> Detailed Results

*  F L O O R  E X E R C I S E S / Boden
1. Sandra Izbasa (ROU) - 14.833
2. Diana Chelaru (ROU) - 14.633
3. Anna Dementyeva (RUS)- 14.433
4. Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)- 12.700 
    >> Detailed Results

Thomas Gonzales (CHI),
7th placed at the 2009 Worlds
in London on floor, and
World Cup winner 2007 in Glasgow,
now double winner in Paris

* M E N 's FINALS

* F L O O R  E X E R C I S E S / Boden
1. Enrique Thomas Gonzalez Sepulveda (CHI) - 15.466
2. Flavius Koczi (ROU) - 15.266
3. Thomas Bouhail (FRA) - 15.233
4. Gaël Da Silva (FRA) - 14.800
    >> Detailed Results

*  P O M M E L  H O R S E / Pferd
1. Louis Smith (GBR) - 15.700
2. Saso Bertoncelj (SLO) - 15.500
3. Cyril Tommasone (FRA) - 15.333
4. Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS) - 13.800
>> Detailed Results

* S T I L L  R I N G S / Ringe
1. Yibing Chen (CHN) - 15.933
2. Aleksandr Balandin (RUS) - 15.766
3. Matteo Morandi (ITA) - 15.600
3. Konstantin Pluzhnikov (RUS)- 15.600
5. Koji Yamamuro (JPN)- 15.300
    >> Detailed Results

* V A U L T  /  Sprung
1. Enrique Thomas Gonzalez Sepulveda (CHI) - 16.099
2. Flavius Koczi (ROU)- 15.800
3. Dmitri Kasparovich (BLR) - 15.750
4. Luis Rivera (PUR) - 15.649
5. Theo Saeger (GBR) - 15.533
    >> Detailed Results

*  P A R A L L E L  B A R S / Barren
1. Mitja Petkovsek (SLO) - 15.800
2. Zhe Feng (CHN) - 15.633
3. Epke Zonderland (NED) - 15.166
4. Roman Kulesza (POL) - 14.933
     >> Detailed Results

* H I G H  B A R / RECK   
1. Epke Zonderland NED) - 15.966
2. Danell Leyva (USA) - 15.566
3. Marijo Moznik (CRO) - 15.300
4. Jeffrey Wammes (NED) - 14.333
     >> Detailed Results
* SA T U R D A Y , March 19 - QUALIFICATION
( At C III events the best four gymnasts per apparatus from the preliminary round qualify for the Final (Q):

* MEN's Floor Exercises
1. E. T. Gonzalez Sepulveda CHI) - 15.466   (Q)
2. Gaël Da Silva                     (FRA) - 15.300  (Q)
3. Thomas Bouhail                (FRA) - 15.066  (Q)
4. Flavius Koczi                      (ROU) - 15.066  (Q)

5. Enrico Pozzo (ITA) - 14.966
6. Alexander Shatilov(ISR)  - 14.866
7. Jeffrey Wammes (NED) - 14.833
8. Eleftherios Kosmidis (GRE) - 14.800
9. Sakari Vekki (FIN) - 14.566
10. Daniel Purves (GBR) - 14.333
11. Tomislav Markovic CRO) - 14.200
12. Kas Ven Weelden (NED) - 13.166

* Pommel horse
1. Prashanth Sellathurai (AUS) - 16.000  (Q)
2. Louis Smith                  (GBR) - 15.566  (Q)
3. Saso Bertoncelj            (SLO) - 15.333  (Q)
4. Cyril Tommasone         (FRA)- 15.266  (Q)

5. Weiyang Guo (CHN) - 15.166
6. Alberto Busnari (ITA)- 15.100
7. Pierre-Yves Bény (FRA) - 14.866
8. Alexander Shatilov (ISR)- 14.466
9. Robert Seligman (CRO) - 14.033
10. Dmitrijs Trefilovs (LAT) - 13.766
11. Donna DOnny Truyens (BEL) - 12.633
12. Filip Ude (CRO) - 12.566

* Still Rings
1. Yibing Chen                   (CHN) - 15.800  (Q)
2. Koji Yamamuro              (JPN) - 15.633  (Q)
3. Konstantin Pluzhnikov (RUS) - 15.466  (Q)
4. Aleksandr Balandin      (RUS) - 15.433  (Q)
4. Matteo Morandi                (ITA) - 15.433  (Q)

6. Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE) - 15.400
7. Samir Aït Saïd (FRA) - 15.333
8. Ali Al Asi (JOR) - 15.300
9. Matteo Angioletti (ITA) - 15.100
10. Ivan San Miguel (ESP) - 15.033
11. Irodotos Georgallas (CYP) - 14.500
12. Chin Yu Chen - 13.566

* Vault
1. Dzmitry Kaspiarovich     (BLR) - 16.100  (Q)
2. En Gonzalez Sepulveda (CHI) - 16.033  (Q)
3. Theo Seager                  (GBR) - 15.917  (Q)
4. Flavius Koczi                  (ROU) - 15.600  (Q)
4. Luis RIvera                     (PUR) - 15.600  (Q)

6. Anton Golotsutskov (RUS) - 15.417
7. Marek Lyszczarz    (POL) - 15.300
8. Jeffrey Wammes    (NED) - 15.283
9. Thomas Bouhail     (FRA) - 15.050
10. Andrey Isayev      (UKR) - 14.567
11. Hak Seon Yang   (KOR) - 14.033

* Paralell Bars
1. Zhe Feng                (CHN) - 15.566  (Q)
2. Mitja Petkovsek     (SLO) - 15.533  (Q)
3. Epke Zonderland (NED) - 15.233  (Q)
4. Roman Kulesza  (POL)  - 15.100  (Q)

5. Aliaksandr Tsarevich (BLR) - 15.033
6. Hamilton Sabot (FRA) - 15.000
7. Guanyin Wang (CHN) - 14.733
8. Fabian Leimlehner (AUT) - 14.600
9. Vasileios Tsolakidis (GRE) - 14.200
10. Yann Cucherat (FRA) - 13.800
11. Adam Kierzkowski (POL) - 13.700
12. Samuel Piasecky (SVK) - 13.533

* High Bar
1. Danell Leyva          (USA) - 15.866  (Q)
2. Epke Zonderland (NED) - 15.833  (Q)
3. Marijo Moznik       (CRO) - 14.766  (Q)
4. Jeffrey Wammes (NED) - 14.433  (Q)

5. Chenglong Zhang (CHN) - 14.400
6. Zhe Feng (CHN) - 14.333
7. Mykola Kuksenkov (UKR) - 14.066
8. Marco Baldauf (AUT) - 13.833
9. Samuel Piasecky (SVK) - 13.800
10. Enrico Pozzo (ITA) - 13.066
11. Roman Kulesza (POL)- 12.600
12. Fabian Leimlehner (AUT) - 12.066
* WOMEN's Qualification rounds

* Vault
1. Tatiana Nabieva         (RUS) - 14.483 (Q)
2. Aliya Mustafina           (RUS) - 14.433  (Q)
3. Diana Maria Chelaru (ROU) - 13.900 (Q)
4. Jennifer Khwela          (RSA) - 13.733 (Q)

5. Hyunjoo Jo (KOR) - 13.500
6. Imogen Cairns (GBR) - 13.833
7. Tijana Tkalcec (GRO) - 13.333
8. Paula Plichta -(POL)  13.100
9. Ariella Kaeslin (SUI) - 6.733
10. Hiu Ying Angel Wong (HKG) - 6.667

* Uneven Bars
1. Aliya Mustafina        (RUS) - 15.833 (Q)
2. Qiushuang Huang (CHN) - 15.466 (Q)
3. Elisabeth Seitz        (GER) - 14.866 (Q)
4. Tatiana Nabieva      (RUS) - 14.833 (Q)

5. Ana Porgras (ROU) - 13.866
6. Vasiliki Millousi (GRE) - 13.700
7. Jana Sikulova (CZE) - 13.333
8. Lauren Mitchell (AUS) - 12.966
9. Ivana Kamnikar (SLO) - 12.900
10. Jessica Lopez (VEN) - 12.366

* Balance Beam
1. Aliya Mustafina       (RUS) - 15.333 (Q)
2. Ana Porgras           (ROU) - 14.733 (Q)
3. Anna Dementyeva (RUS) - 14.700 (Q)
4. Lauren Mitchell       (AUS) - 14.433 (Q)

5. Linlin Deng (CHN) - 14.366
6. Vasiliki Millousi (GRE) - 13.833
7. Hannah Whelan (GBR) - 13.800
8. Yana Demyanchuk (UKR) - 13.800
9. Liufang Wu (CHN) - 13.600
10. Jessica Lopez (VEN)- 13.233
11. Fiona Novak (SLO) - 11.766

* Floor Exercises
1. Sandra Raluca Izbasa (ROU) - 14.933 (Q)
2. Diana Maria Chelaru    (ROU) - 14.733 (Q)
3. Vanessa Ferrari               (ITA) - 14.300 (Q)
4. Anna Dementyeva         (RUS) - 13.900 (Q)

5. Lu Sui (CHN) - 13.800
6. Jessica Lopez (VEN) - 13.733
7. Marta Pihan-Kulesza (POL) - 13.166
8. Tina Erceg (CRO) - 13.066
9. Lauren Mitchell (AUS) - 13.033
10. Liufang Wu (CHN) - 12.400
11. Marine Brevet (FRA) - 12.133
12. Fiona Novak (SLO) - 11.933

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10th European Youth Olympic Festival 2009, Artistic GymnasticsRussians most successfully in Tampere ...

24. Juli 2009  
Tampere, Finland  
Artistic Gymnastics

10th European Youth Olympic Festival 2009, Artistic GymnasticsRussians most successfully in Tampere ...

'Finx', the 2009 EYOF mascot

The Finish City of Tampere hosts the 10th European Youth Olympic Festival (EYOF) in summer 2009. The young European athletes compete in nine sports: Athletics, Basketball, Cycling, Gymnastic, Handball, Judo, Swimming, Tennis and Volleyball.  The events take place from July 18th to 25th.
European Youth Olympic Festival, known by its initials EYOF, is a biennial multi-sport event for young athletes from the 49 member countries of the association of European Olympic Committees (EOC). After winning the team gold medal on Tuesday David BELYAVSKY won the second gold for RUSSIA at the today's all-around decision and also the Russian girls and specially Victorya KOMOVA were unbetable with the team and at the all-round final.
Also at the finals the Russian talents won five more golden medals at the final day ...


2009 European Youth Olympic Festival
 - Artistic Gymnastics -* Tampere, Finland, July 21 - 24 -

♦ Boy's Competitions
* Tuesday, July 21

>> Results Teams, 
     > All-around  Qualification
           >> Finals, Qualifiers 

* Thursday, July 23
    >> Boy's All-around final

 

* Friday, July 24
* APP. FINALS, Boys  >> ... Starting list

► Fin. Floor exerc.   ► Fin. Pommel horse   ► Fin. Rings
►>> Fin. Vault          ► Fin. Parallel Bars     ► Fin. High bar

* ... read more on the >> German GYMmedia website

♦ Girls's Competitions
  * Wednesday, July 22

♦ Russia in front of Romania and the Netherlands;
 .....that's the team results of Wednesday's girls event...:
>> Results Teams,    > All-around  Qualification     >> Finals, Qualifiers 

* Thursday, July 23
    >> Girl's All-around final

* Friday, July 24
 APP.FINALS:  Starting list
► Fin. Vault                  ► Fin. Uneven bars  
► Fin. Balance beam   ►Fin. Floor exerc.

* ... read more on the >> German GYMmedia website

* REVIEW:
The ninth and last Summer EYOF was held 2007 in Belgrade (SRB).

2011 Artistic English Championships

02. März 2011  
Stoke on Trent, Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

2011 Artistic English Championships

Kristian Thomas, Hanna Whelan

Kristian Thomas (Earls GC) and Hannah Whelan (City of Liverpool) claimed the all-around Senior titles at the 2011 English Championships at Fenton Manor, Stoke on Trent on Saturday 26th February.

The Silver and the Bronze medals in this first major domestic event for the year went to Matthew Firth (City of Leeds GC) and Max Whitlock (South Essex Gymnastics) in the Men’s event and to Jennifer Pinches (City of Liverpool) and Danusia Francis (Heathrow GC), in the Women’s competition. 
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Maxim Deviatovski and Anna Dementyeva are new Russian Champions

27. Februar 2011  
Moscow, Russia  
Artistic Gymnastics

Maxim Deviatovski and Anna Dementyeva are new Russian Champions

Maxim Deviatovski (RUS)

After the Women on Wednesday now the Russian men fought for the title of a Russian All-around Champion in Moscow on Thursday.
Winner with  ascore of 87,900 points were Maxim Deviatovski.
On second place came Pavel Russinyak (87,000) followed by Nikita Ignatyev (86,100) on third.
Russias best all-around competitor of the 2010 Worlds in Rotterdam, Sergey Khorokhordin, among the 53 active participants. Only 38 of them made a complete all-around competion with all sic apparatus.
* Detailed Men's Results

On women's side Anna Anna Dementyeva won in front of  Anna Pavlovaa on Wedneday, already ...
* Detailed  Women's Results
2011 Russian Gymnastics Championships
   - Moscow, Saturday, Feb 26 -
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WOMEN's FINALS
 
*V a u l t / Sprung
1. NABIYEVA, Tatiana        (St. Petersburg)  - 14,475
2. PAVLOVA, Anna        (Moscow area)  - 14,413
3. POLYAN, Alyona                     (Uljanovsk)  - 13,850

4. TELITSYNA, Alexandra                (Mari-El)   - 13,613
5. BELOKOBYLSKAYA, Yulia          (Rostov)  - 13,513
6. TSVETKOVA, Yekaterina (Kostromskaya)  - 12,938
7. DEMENTYEVA, Anna   (Samara/Moscow)  - 12,875
8. LAVRUSHINA, Daria              (Ulyanovsk)  - 12,625

* Uneven Bars / Stufenbarren
1. NABIYEVA, Tatiana        (St. Petersburg)  - 15,600
2. DEMENTYEVA, Anna  (samara/Moscow)  - 14,725
3. KOMOVA, Victoria  (Woronesch/Moakau)  - 14,525

4. NOVIKOVA, Anastasia                   (Moscow)  - 13,825
5. INSHINA, Ylia                               (Voronesh)  - 13,775
6. PAVLOVA, Anna                     (Moscow area)  - 13,125
7. SAPRONOVA, Diana           (St. Petersburg)  - 12,650
8. KRUGLOKOVA, Kristina             (Voronesh)  - 12,200
* Balance Beam / Schwebebalken
1. DEMENTYEVA, Anna  (Samara/Moscow)  - 15,550
2. DUNAEVA, Maria  (St. Petersburg)  - 15,100
3. BELOKOBYLSKAYA, Yulia (Rostov)  - 14,750

4. KOMOVA, Victoria  (Voronesh/Moscow)  - 14,075
5. POLYAN, Alena  (Ulyanovsk)  - 13,775
6. PAVLOVA, Anna (Moscow area)  - 12,925
7. SAPRONOVA, Diana  (St. Petersburg)  - 12,800
8. SASONOVA, Irina  (St. Petersburg)  -  9,825

* Floor Exercises / Boden
1. BELOKOBYLSKAYA, Yulia          (Rostov)  - 14,570
2. DEMENTYEVA, Anna (Samara/Moscow)  - 14,325
3. INSHINA, Yulia                         (Voronesh)  - 14,100

4. STEPANOVA, Maria           (Moscow area)  - 14,025
5. DUNAEVA, Maria               (St. Petersburg)  - 13,835
6. PAVLOVA, Anna                   (Moscow area)  - 13,425
7. POLYAN, Alena                         ( Ulyanovsk)  - 12,900
8. SKORODUMOVA, Yekaterina  (Ulyanovsk)  - 12,650
MEN's FINALS

* Floor Exercises / Boden
1. CHERKASSOV, Andrei  (Kemerovsk)  - 14,775
1. LOBACHYOV, Anton        (Sverdlovsk)  - 14,775
3. GOGOTOV, Dmitri                 (Moscow)  - 14,650

4. GOLOTSUTSKOV, Anton                  (Tomsk)  - 14,550
5. MARKELOV, Artyom  (Vladimirsk/Tatarstan)  - 14,075
6. DYOMIN, Alexander                 (Chelyabinsk)  - 13,625
7. CHALOV, Konstantin                         (Rostov)  - 13,525
8. SOVENKO, Andrei                             (Rostov)  - 11,925

* Pommel horse / Pauschenpferd
1. PEREVOZNIKOV, Andrei     (Moscow area)  - 15,025
2. PAKHOMENKO, Igor               ( Kemerovsk)  - 14,700
3. STOLYAROV, Dmitri                      (Moscow)  - 14,675

4. GARIBOV, Emin                               (Moscow)  - 14,625
5. OLENNIKOV, Vladimir                    (Moscow)  - 14,600
6. RUSSINYAK, Pavel              (Samara/Penza)  - 14,500
7. GOGOTOV, Dmitri                            (Moscow)  - 13,500
8. LOBACHYOV, Anton                    (Sverdlovsk)  - 13,350

* Still Rings / Ringe
1. BALANDIN, Alexander        (Karelia)  - 15,825
2. PLUZHNIKOV, Konstantin  (Tomsk)  - 15,775
3. ABLYAZIN, Denis  (Moscow/Penza)  - 15,550

4. IGNATYEV, Nikita            (Kemerovsk)  - 14,925
5. DYOMIN, Alexander      (Chelyabinsk)  - 14,550
6. RUSSINYAK, Pavel  (Samara/Penza)  - 13,875
7. GARIBOV, Emin                    (Moscow)  - 13,775
* Vault / Sprung
1. GOLOTSUTSKOV, Anton  (Tomsk)  - 15,838
2. YAKUBOVSKY, Dmitri     (Moscow)  - 15,138
3. BYKOV, Alexei              (Volgograd)  - 14,975

4. MARKELOV, Artyom          (Vladimir)  - 14,963
5. BODNAR, Mikhail    (Moscow area)  - 14,875
6. COVENKO, Andrei              (Rostov)  - 14,788
7. ABLYAZIN, Denis (Moscow/Penza)  - 14,650
8. LOBACHYOV, Anton,   (Sverdlovsk)  - 14,138

* Parallel bars / Barren
1. IGNATYEV, Nikita          (Kemerovsk)  - 14,700
1. SAVELYEV, Gennadi       (Volgograd)  - 14,700
3. RUSSINYAK, Pavel  (Samara/Penza)  - 14,450

4. GARIBOV, Eminn                  (Moscow)  - 14,400
5. DEVIATOVSKI, Maxim     (Kemerovsk)  - 14,225
6. YAKUBOVSKIY, Dmitri          (Moscow)  - 13,600
GOGOTOV, Dmitri                      (Moscow)  - 12,925

* High bar / Reck
1. GARIBOV, Eminn                  (Moscow)  - 15,025
2. RUSSINYAK, Pavel    (Samara/Penza)  - 14,700
3. IGNATYEV, Nikita             (Kemerovsk)  - 14,600

4. DEVIATOVSKI, Maxim      (Kemerovsk)  - 14,575
5. BONDAR, Mikhail         (Moscow/Vlad.)  - 14,550
6. DEMIN, Alexander           (Chelyabinsk)  - 14,075
7. KLOCHKOV, Alexander          (Moscow)  - 12,550
CHERKASOV, Andrei            (Kemerovsk)  - 11,375

Olympian Anja Brinker Suffers Achilles Tear

23. Januar 2011  
Berlin, Hannover, Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

Olympian Anja Brinker Suffers Achilles Tear

Anja Brinker (GER)

More bad Luck for German Gymnastics

German Olympian Anja Brinker tore her right Achilles' tendon Sunday, ending her planned comeback at April's European championships in Berlin.
Sidelined with a foot injury in 2010, Brinker injured her Achilles while performing at the "Fireworks of Gymnastics" show at Berlin's Max-Schmeling-Halle. The 2011 European Championships take place April 4-10 at the same venue.
Brinker, who turned 20 on Jan. 18, will undergo surgery and be out of competition for at least six months, the German Gymnastics Federation (Deutscher Turner-Bund) announced.
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Fabian Hambuechen tears Achilles, out six months

16. Januar 2011  
Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

Fabian Hambuechen tears Achilles, out six months

Fabian Hambüchen (GER)
body blow!

Fabian HAMBUECHEN of Germany tore his left Achilles tendon Saturday in a training accident. The 2010 Worlds high bar bronze medalist will undergo surgery on Monday, Januar 17.

<< Fabian Hambuechen tore his left Achilles tendon Saturday, January 15 in a training accident after a drop to a somersault backward on floor. 
To the German press the 23 years old Olympic bronze medallist (Beijing 2008) said: "I've  just perceived, it was a torn ligament ... but crying is not the way to help in my situation ... my long-term objective are the Olympic Games 2012!".
At the 2010 Worlds in Rotterdam Hambuechen helped Germany for the team bronze at four of sic apparatus. 
Now the 23-year-old is expected to be out for six months.
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* ... see You in BEIJING 2008: O L YM P I C S P E C I A L S ( II ) ....

17. August 2008  
Beijing / China  
Artistic Gymnastics

* ... see You in BEIJING 2008: O L YM P I C S P E C I A L S ( II ) ....

... and what else happens in Beijing  (II) ?
.... in addition to many tourists also over 20,000 journalists are in Beijing. Numerous camera lenses follow almost every move of the athletes with more or less intensity.


"Olympic special" wants to present the moments which are usually overlooked by the majority of the journalists in their run towards the next headlines...



... what else happens in Beijing?!

<<  ... back to O L Y M P I C S P E C I A L ( I )


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" ... W H A T 's  NE W . . . ?
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480 million viewers for Oksana
Germany's silver medalist on vault, Oksana Chusovitina, was bestowed with a great honour: She was invited to the most popular talk show of Chinese television. The show is regularly being watched by 480 million (!) viewers!
The life-story of the 33-year-old gymnast and her son Alisher, who suffered from leukemia, deeply moved the Chinese audience.
So Oksana probably isn't only the most successful German gymnast at these Olympic Games but also the one with the most audience- coverage...


Australia's women's gymnastics team still are an upcoming gymnastics nation under the former US- coach Peggy Liddick:
The girls improved from the eighth place in Athens to the fifth place now in Beijing.

Their national champion Daria JOURA - on the picture with her father who met her in the audience ranks after the competition - did especially well on uneven bars.

However, this time they haven't reach a qualification to any of the apparatus finals. The first reserve for the beam final is Shona Morgan ...
<< ... back to   O L Y M P I AC  S P E C I A L  ( I )

* ... see You in BEIJING 2008: O L YM P I C S P E C I A L S ( I ) ....

06. August 2008  
Beijing / China  
Artistic Gymnastics

* ... see You in BEIJING 2008: O L YM P I C S P E C I A L S ( I ) ....

... and what else is happening in Beijing?

.... In addition to many Olympic Games fans from the USA, many British people have also travelled to Beijing, especially for the completely sold-out gymnastics events. The symbols of the Beijing Olympic Games are popular motifs for photos. After all, after a gap of 64 years London will be hosting the next Olympic Summer Games in 2012.

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... what else is happening in Beijing!!


" ... W H A T 's   N E W   I N  B E I J I N G ?
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...as soon as the last spectators of the women’s team final had left the arena,
the change of the apparatus set-up was started by the team Janssen-Fritsen.
Here they are setting up the rings.
Also various TV stations were interested in their work.

Gao Jiang, right, with the Chinese flag, together with his gymnasts. A lot of cheers were heard from the 18,000 spectators in the Olympic arena.

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...It was a historic victory:
For the first time a Chinese women's team won Olympic team gold, after bronze 2000 in Sydney and also 1984 in Los Angeles. In between they reached the 6th place in 1988 in Seoul, two times the fourth place in 1992 in Barcelona and in 1996 in Atlanta. Four years ago in Athens they only managed seventh place.

"... We changed a lot of things and sent our gymnasts to international competitions so that they could learn. And of course we worked hard", said Gao Jiang at the press conference after the team final.

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Oksana Chusovitina and Katja Abel in a
good mood in the athletes' lounge




...What might be the reason for their happiness?

<< Oksana Chusovitina (33) and Katja Abel (24) indeed have reason to be happy. One of them, because she is the first female gymnast to have taken part in five (!!!) Olympic Games - as long ago as 1992 she won the team gold medal with the last Soviet team in history - and now in Beijing she is qualified for the vault final.

 << Katja Abel has fulfilled her dream: She managed to participate in the Olympic Games with the German team, even though not everything worked out perfectly for the team during the competition.
Now she says it's up to the younger gymnasts to take over responsibility for the team.
At the moment it's still the 33-year old Oksana Chusovitina who brought the top performances for the German team  - she reached a great 10th place in the all-around qualification!




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...Quite frankly, it is hard to think about who or what is being watched by the guard under the sunshade, as nothing is located around it...?
But look at his posture and the hands in line with his trouser seams. That's the rule  - No matter where you see a uniformed person, you see them in this posture for two hours. Then they have a two-hour break.
But apart from that, there is not much to see of strict controls, armed militia etc. You only see friendly, smiling, helpful guards. Compared to that there were other Olympic Games in the past with far more annoying control systems!





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Between the competitions a competent team of the Dutch equipment supplier 'Janssen-Fritsen'
takes care of a quick change of the set-up of the high-tech apparatus in the competition arena.

Svetlana Chorkina, Philipp Boy

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Despite a mistake on the landing on vault, Germany's Philipp Boy was happy, especially about a great high-bar routine which helped his team to achieve an excellent fourth place.

In front of him in the picture is former gymnastics diva Svetlana Chorkina busy with handling requests for autographs and interviews.
On the upcoming Wednesday she will commentate the women's team final for Russian TV from a "cam position", that's a reporter-seat with an installed camera.


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Lori Ballard-STRONG - Canada's former star of the Eighties on uneven bars



In the 1980s Canada's uneven bars queen Lori Ballard-STRONG once performed in Cottbus, thrilling the audience especially on her specialist apparatus. Together with her team-mate Michael Inglis she won the pairs competition at that event. The hand-made, carved cups which she won at that competition still have pride of place in a glass showcase in her home.
Here in Beijing she is commentating the gymnastics events for Canadian TV together with Brenda Irving.
For the women's events Svetlana Chorkina will commentate for Russian TV and also Nadia COMANECI is supposed to be coming...!





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Nowitzki - German
flag bearer

Gymnastics star Fabian Hambüchen was asked by the German Olympic Committee if he wanted to carry the German flag in the opening ceremony. However, due to the start of the men's gymnastics competition being on the day right after the ceremony, he declined.
Now Basketball star Dirk Nowitzki  will be the flag bearer for the German Olympic team on Friday in Beijing's stadium.
This was published by the German Olympic committee in a press conference on August 6th.
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Joeline Möbius - the spring chicken of the German team

* With her 15 years Joelinie MÖBIUS, the gymnast from the city of Chemnitz, is the "spring chicken" of the German Olympic team.  37-year-old horse rider Peter Thomsen, the oldest member of Germany's Olympic team, theoretically could be her father.
At 1.52m in height, both Joeline Möbius and Anja Brinker are also the smallest members of the German Olympic team. Weighing only 39 kg Anja is also the lightest member. In contrast to that, judoka Sandra Köppen-Zuckschwerdt  alone weighs in at 125 kg.

*The FIG published statistics about the age structure of the gymnastics competitions at Olympic Games since Sydney 2000.
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...babyfaces 2008?



* Wednesday, August 6th
Age of Chinese gymnasts unclear
This is not the first time in the history of women's artistic gymnastics that a dispute has arisen about the true age of some gymnasts competing at major international events.
This time the dispute is about the Chinese gymnasts HE, Kexin and JIANG Yuyan. The latter was a member of the  silver medalist team at the World Championships in Stuttgart 2007.
*The  former US-Coach Bela Karolyi said to the US agency AP: "...they aren't 16 years old, they are children!"
Only a few days before the start of the competitions at the Olympic Games, a dispute has arisen between the FIG and the IOC about the clarification of these doubts concerning the minimum starting age (16 years) of these gymnasts...!
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*  ... read more "O L Y M P I C  S P E C I A L  ( II )

Farewell Ceremony for the DTB Women s Gymnastics Team

23. Juli 2008  
Bergisch Gladbach  
Artistic Gymnastics

Farewell Ceremony for the DTB Women s Gymnastics Team

Farewell ceremony for the women's gymnastics team

The German Women's Gymnastics Team for the Olympic Games, who are leaving on Friday 25 July 2008 in order to acclimatise at a training camp in Kamo-City (Japan), have now completed their "direct preparation" for competition in the Olympics at the German National Training Centre at Bergisch Gladbach.
Before the gymnasts were allowed to return to their clubs for a few days of home training, the Technical Rubber Products section of the company LANXESS AG in Leverkusen took advantage of the proximity of the National Training Centre to say a personal thank-you to the gymnasts. 
What is more, the Business Unit Technical Rubber Products (BU TRP) of the LANXESS Group has extended its cooperation agreement with the Deutscher Turner-Bund for a further two years, until 31 December 2010. ...

In association with the three world-renowned gymnastics trademarksJanssen-Fritsen (NED), SPIETH Gymnastic (GER) and Eurotramp (GER), whose apparatus will be used at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Technical Rubber Products of the LANXESS Group will be supporting GYMmedia's Olympic reporting from China, which will begin in a few days' time ...

Jürgen GUNTHER, Marketing Manager atTechnical Rubber Products and Dr. Harry ZUMAQU? at the farewell ceremony in Bergisch Gladbach

A Strong Partner in the Olympic Alliance
Technical Rubber Products of the LANXESS  Group - known, for example, for its product Levapren® - is sponsoring the outfit of the National Women's Gymnastics Team and is therefore an "Official Sponsor of the DTB". 
Marketing Managers Jürgen Gunther and  Dr. Harry Zumaqué as well as DTB Vice-President Rosemarie Napp and RTB President Hans-Jürgen Zacharias bid farewell to the team, which qualified for the Games by achieving tenth place in the World Championships in Stuttgart .
Since then the team has consistently demonstrated its top-class form, with the victory of Oksana Chusovitina (Cologne) in the European Championships being a particularly outstanding achievement.  The team's excellent performance has motivated Technical Rubber Products  to extend its sponsorship until 31 December 2010.
"For us it is immensely important to have the Technical Rubber Products section of LANXESS as an appropriate and strong sponsorship partner. For the National Women's Team the continuation of the cooperation agreement is very important for ensuring their continued successful development,"  says DTB President Rainer Brechtken. 

The German Women's Gymnastics Team presents an autographed team photo

As a token of thanks for the invitation the gymnasts presented the Lanxess representatives as well as the Head of the Rhineland OSP, Michael Scharf and Susanne Strothmann of the North-Rhine-Westphalia Sports Foundation with an autographed team photo.  
Further partnerships exist between Technical Rubber Products and the Rheinischer Turnerbund as well as the Cologne-based European Champion and exceptional phenomenon of the modern gymnastics era,  Oksana TSCUSSOWITINA.  

For the Leverkusen-based partner Technical Rubber Products of the LANXESS  Group
it was the long-term quality of the German gymnasts, evidenced in particular by their attainment of tenth position in the World Championships in Stuttgart which enabled them to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing, as well as Tschussowitina's winning of the title of European Vault Champion, which led to this new sponsorship agreement. 

* ... latest NEWS:
>> Die Fa. LANXESS eröffnet Kautschuk-Forschungszentrum in China
* Source: Lanxess AG

Germans beat European Selections - Hambuechen with a world record ...

19. Juli 2008  
Dessau / Germany  
Artistic Gymnastics

Germans beat European Selections - Hambuechen with a world record ...

Hambuechen (GER)
World's highest score at high bar!

Hambuechen scored a high bar world record...!
The German men's Olympic team won a friendly meet versus two European Olympic Mix Selection - represented by a lot of reputed European stars and champions, all individual qualified for Olympic Games - with a score of 247,650 points in front of MIXED II (239,350), followed by MIXED I (235,350) points.

In the ANHALT Venue in the "City of Sports" DESSAU more than 2.500 visitors saw also the German high bar world champion Fabian Hambuechen in top form, winning the all-around (92,850), but he also got the top score of 16.600 (!!)  (start value 17.3) at his special apparatus.

So Hambuechen set an clearly example toward the Olympic artistic gymnastics events, starting three weeks later...


GERMANY - European MIXED I  -  ... MIXED II
- Dessau, Anhalt Arena, 2008, Saturday, July 19 -
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